In these tough economic times when households have to account for every nickel just to afford groceries, no one who saw the Monsters play the Toronto Marlies on Jan. 24 could accuse them of wasting shots. The Monsters built a 2-0 lead after the first period at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse and then managed only eight shots on goal in the final two frames. They scored on five of those eight shots, though, to outlast their rivals from the AHL North, 7-5. A crowd of 7,059 went home happy. Getting two points in the standings to improve to 25-11-1-1 and increase […]
The Monsters dropped the first game of a two-game weekend set at Rochester, 3-1, on Jan. 5. Cleveland (22-9-1-0) outshot the Americans, 34-26, but could only muster a power-play goal by Owen Sillinger in the second period. The Monsters were 1-for-6 on power plays. It was Sillinger’s sixth goal of the season. Carson Meyer and […]
The Monsters dropped the first game of a two-game weekend set at Rochester, 3-1, on Jan. 5. Cleveland (22-9-1-0) outshot the Americans, 34-26, but could only muster a power-play goal by Owen Sillinger in the second period. The Monsters were 1-for-6 on power plays. It was Sillinger’s sixth goal of the season. Carson Meyer and Trey Fix-Wolansky assisted. The Americans scored the first goal of the game 5 minutes, 28 seconds into the first period. They scored twice in just over a minute in the second period for the final margin. Jet Greaves made 23 saves in the Monsters’ net. […]
Owen Sillinger scored a power-play goal with one second remaining in overtime, lifting the visiting Monsters past Chicago, 4-3, on Dec. 30. Sillinger was assisted by Mikael Pyyhtia and Marcus Bjork. Sillinger had two goals for the game and now has five for the season. Mikael Pyyhtia and Billy Sweezey also tallied for Cleveland (21-7-1-0). […]